Quick & Dirty Drill Press Table

After buying a new to me Delta floor drill press, I wanted to make it more functional by adding a drill press table. Not having a lot of spare time during hunting season, it also needed to be quick to make. Here is what I came up with.

Started with a 3/4in plywood base and added some Kreg Mini-Trak. To make it a quicker build, instead of cutting dadoes, I layered in some 1/2in plywood between the track pieces. The track is slightly lower than the plywood, but it works just fine that way. An additional time-saving device was to use aluminum angle for the fence and add a plywood face, rather than build a complete fence from scratch. A couple Kreg Trak-Klamps and another piece of track on top of the fence to finish it off. Small total investment and less than an hour of build time.

Thanks for looking.

-- "Good judgement is the result of experience. A lot of experience is the result of poor judgement."

Very Nice! I just constructed a similar one, but I routed slots for the fence screws to pass through and only just as far as from the rear to the CL bit location. Why did you extend your track to the front edge of the table. Looks great, but I’m missing something. Teach me.

It was much easier and faster that way since I was using laminations of plywood to create the slots instead of routing. This allowed just making straight, full length cuts and helped keep build time to a minimum.

The full length tracks allow the hold down clamps to work anywhere along the table

-- "Good judgement is the result of experience. A lot of experience is the result of poor judgement."